Month: October 2007

We’ve officially launched a new website dedicated to providing invaluable information around building Services Oriented Architecture (SOA) and Business Process Management (BPM) solutions using the Microsoft platform. As a part of this site, we’ve released our latest roadmap and product strategy around the next generation of Microsoft SOA-based technologies, codenamed “Oslo”, to included updated messaging and workflow technologies…

I just received the slide decks from the other presenters and published them all to my SkyDrive: Keynote – Increasing Agency Capabilities: Enabling data access, visualization, analysis and insight with Microsoft Virtual Earth Speaker: Kevin Adler Vexcel – Extending the Virtual Earth Platform through Geospatial Expertise Speaker: John Lee Adding Mapping Capabilities…

It was announced today on the Windows Server Team Blog that Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 will return to being available via a separate download for Windows Server 2008 customers. In early betas, WSS 3.0 was included as a component in the Windows Server 2008 configuration. This decision was made to allow more flexibility in the…

The question that I get most often when I talk to developers about SharePoint Document Workflow is on Sending and Tracking tasks for the people participating in a document workflow. So, in this 4th part of the series that I am doing on "Building Document Workflow" in SharePoint/MOSS 2007, I am demonstrating how to send…

I’d been racking my brain trying to remember the configuration steps for configuring a Virtual PC -based VM that’s running as a Domain Controller (with DNS enabled) to access the internet. I’ve done this many times in the past and just couldn’t remember the steps. This is a tricky thing because with a DC, DNS is…

I was recently presented a scenario by a gentleman who wanted more control over a MOSS 2007 site, list, and item settings. He wanted to essentially “track” changes that were made to these artifacts within a given site collection. In addition, he wanted to know the type of change that occured. SPListEventReceiver or SPWebEventReceiver you might…

One of the biggest challenges I feel that we (Microsoft) face in showcasing the “value” of architecting/developing Office Business Applications is providing what I’ll call “solid reference implementations” along the lines of Duwamish Books, Fitch and Mather, Global Bank, LitwareHR, other many other solutions we’ve released. Sure, we have the OBA Reference Architecture Packs (OBA…

Argh, I just beat my head against a wall trying to do this for the last couple hours:(. After a bit of web searching, I finally found this. So if you try to run the SQL Server 2005 installer to install the full version of SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS), you will inevitably get an…

This is an interesting and very useful article for those of us who program against the SharePoint Object Model. The author spends much of the article talking about the impact of how we as developers can have on the SharePoint server and some suggestions as to how to better approach accomplishing certain task. From the…